Family Honor opens with a young girl rushing at dusk to a secret tryst in a village cemetery somewhere in the rugged mountains of Sicily. It closes with her daughter and granddaughter on board a luxury liner leaving the Port of naples. All the action within the pages of this fast-moving, suspenseful, surprising and shocking novel takes place from 1923 through the sixties. The whirlwind lives of these three women, with all their virtue, honor and faults, fly under the reader's eyes and over the pages as they mingle with the history and the social culture of Italy.